Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

★★★ The cake was "two feet across and three feet thick". Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: be

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 76 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: ★★★ The cake was "two feet across and three feet thick".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thick	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 cake	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cake	det
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thick	cop
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 thick	punct
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 feet	nummod
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thick	nsubj
10	across	across	ADV	_	9 feet	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feet	cc
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 feet	nummod
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thick	obl
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 thick	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	★ ★ the cake					three feet obl; thick property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was exactly as wide as it was tall, like a square box of cake

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wide	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wide	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 wide	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 wide	advmod
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 tall	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tall	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tall	cop
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wide	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 box	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 box	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 box	det
13	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 box	amod
14	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wide	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 cake	case
16	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 box	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					exactly, wide property	tree rules
2	is	past	it					tall property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was taller than it was wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taller	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taller	cop
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 wide	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wide	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wide	cop
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taller	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					tall property	tree rules
2	is	past	it					wide property	tree rules

Option 3

It was wider than it was tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wider	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wider	cop
3	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 tall	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tall	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wider	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					wide property	tree rules
2	is	past	it					tall property	tree rules

Option 4

It was wider than it was tall, and it weighed more than a camel

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wider	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wider	cop
3	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 tall	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tall	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wider	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weighed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 weighed	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 weighed	nsubj
11	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wider	conj
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 weighed	obj
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 camel	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 camel	det
15	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		wide property	tree rules
2	is	past	it		tall property	tree rules
3	weigh	past	it	more		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

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